Windmill



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

FREDERICK W. WOLFE, OF GRESTON, IOWA.

WINDMILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,470, dated December6, 1881.

Application filed October 18, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. WOLFF, acitizen of the United States, residing at Oreston, in the county ofUnion and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Windmills, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to windmills, and the object of the invention isto furnish means of transmitting the power furnished by the windwheel todistances, past intervening buildings, around hills and otherintervening objects, in order that the windmill may beset inthe mostdesirable and favorable place for operating a pump or other device whereit is required to have it located.

The accompanying drawing is a perspective illustrating my invention.

Referring to the drawing by letters, letter A represents the tower, Bthe wind Wheel crankshalt, and O the connecting-rod of an ordinarywindmill, the wind-wheel not being shown.

D is a bellcrank, journaled at its bend on a shaft, d, which is securedto the tower A, so as to oscillate in a vertical plane, and has itshorizontal arm or end hinged or journaled to the connecting-rod O, andits vertical end or arm hinged or journaled to a connecting-rod, E,which extends to and is connected at its other end to a bell-crank, F,which is arranged to oscillate in a horizontal plane, and is journaledat its bend to a post or any suitable fixed object, G. The other end ofthe bellcrank F is hinged or journaled to a connecting-rod, H, whichextends and isjournaled to one end of a bell-crank, I, which is arrangedto oscillate in a vertical plane, and isjonrnaled at its bend to a post,J. The other end of the bell-crank I isjournaled to the connecting-rod Kof the pump L.

M is a barn or other building, intervening between the windmill and pumpL; and it will be seen that by means of the bell-crank levers arrangedto oscillate, part of them in horizontal, and part ofthem in vertical,planes, Iam enabled to transmit the force derived from the wheel pastthis barn or intervening object.

It will be obvious that by lengthening the connecting-rods andincreasing their number and angular relations to each other the extentto which the force of the wind wheel in passing intervening objects maybe increased greatly exceeds what I have shown.

By means of my invention the farmer may locate his windmill in the mostdesirable locality, and then transmit the force derived from it, pastintervening objects, to wherever hedesires to use it.

Having thus described myinvention, whatI claim as new is 1. Incombination with a windmill and connecting-rods, bell-cranks, part ofwhich are arranged to oscillate in vertical and partin horizontalplanes, whereby the force derived from the wind-wheel may be transmittedpast intervening objects, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

2. In combination with a windmill, the bell-- cranks D and 1, arrangedto oscillate in vertical planes, the bell-crank F, arranged tooscillateinahorizontalplane,and theconnectingrods E and H, substantiallyas and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK w. WOLFE.

Witnesses:

S. F. RHonEs, O. O. OULVER.

